All right people, this is neither a story nor a bunch of one-shots, but a list of plot bunnies, storylines and similar that I know I will never write, for various reasons, such as: too many stories planned already, not my favourite character, not characters I think I can use well enough, et caetera. Yet, some might think, as I do, that those stories deserve a chance, even if I'm not the one writing them, so I decided to give them up for adoption. If someone is interested in one plot in particular, I'll ask for them to leave a review or PM me. If they actually start writing a story out of these prompts and I know of it, I'll had the names of the story and of the author under the temporary title.
Anyway, you can do anything you want with my plot bunnies, and you can even chose not to follow the few rules I come up with for each stories... Though, try to stick at least to some of those.
And if no one wants of my plots... Well, maybe I'll reconsider not writing them.
Still, I hope you'll like them.
By the way, I'm not sure if this is the right ( -est, considering what it is ) category for this... If anyone has a better suggestion, please speak up.
A clean slate for a traitor
Fandom: Harry Potter
Era: begins during the Hogwarts years, then jump back into the Marauders' time. May extend to the first war and beyond if needed.
Main character: Peter Pettigrew
The usual travel-back-in-time-to-the-Marauders'-years story, but this time, it is Peter who goes, to his utter dismay. Start when Harry is taken to Malfoy Manor and just before the hand kills Peter for hesitating. You can chose what sends him back to the past.
Peter then wakes up gasping in the middle of the night in his bed at the dormitory, in his third year at Hogwarts, and for a moment, he believes this was just a dream and would be gone from his mind the next morning. But it doesn't disappear, and after a time, the boy realizes it really happened, in the future.
This Peter is a mix between past and future, and so he struggles with his memories, his guilt and fear, and the belief that he can't have done that to his friends. Even if he has the memories of his former school years, he doesn't become the genius of the year: Peter isn't a genius, and his body has not trained his magic as much as his older self has. He becomes slightly better, in theory, and graps a bit more easily how to do spells right, but he's still far behind the three other Marauders.
He's afraid to talk to Dumbledore, ashamed too. ( For now? )
Peter is torn between saving his own life once again, or trying to be a better friend this time around. He can't help but remember what he did to his friends each time he sees them, and that also drives him away.
Will he rectify his misdeeds or will he change the future? Peter isn't a great person, but he can change bits here and there, and, maybe, it could suffice to change the face of the war.
Others important characters:
James is a bit of a prat, and prone to bully Snape, but he's not a monster. He's jealous of Snape's friendship with Lily. Quidditch is half his life, doing mischief the other half. He get away with working quite a bit, but not too much, and is the best in transfiguration.
Sirius can be cruel if he wants, but what he does to others is nowhere ear what he knows he could do ( he isn't exactly beaten at home, but there's something cold about the Blacks that froze a part of his humanity, and Bellatrix never misses a chance to talk about the Dark Arts ). He could be the best in their year, if he actually had an incentive and the tiniest bit of ambition, but he doesn't work and still gets grades that go from A ( if he doesn't care or doesn't like the subject ) to O ( DADA, transfiguration, what he likes the most ). He could fit in with the Slytherins if half of them weren't bigotted or raving mad, yet his bravery is still stronger than anything else, reason why the Sorting Hat finally put him in Gryffindor. He's way too perceptive about Peter, and immediately notices there is something wrong with him, for this time, he isn't looking for a traitor, but looking out for his friend's well-being.
Don't ask, I adore Sirius, Sirius is awesome.
Remus is a bookworm, and the most caring of the three. He tries to comfort Peter, even if he doesn't understand what's happening to his friend. Like Sirius is half-Gryffindor half-Slytherin, Remus his half-Gryffindor half-Ravenclaw. He's the most open to others who are not part of the Marauders.
Lily is kind, but a bit naive at first, and if they ever learn Peter's secret, she's the one who will forgive quickly and try to change things.
Snape is left aside by almost everyone except Lily, and bullied by James, and Sirius when he is with James. Still, he's not only a victim, and doesn't fear to retaliate with dangerous spells, when the Marauders' are only humiliating. This time around, he scares Peter who saw what was supposed to be his future.
